Principal Engineer (M365) (CH12052)

Job title Principal Engineer (M365)

Department Digital, Data & Technology Group

Salary Starting from £45,585, rising to £54,395

Grade Grade 8

Contract Type Full Time, Open Ended

Placed on Monday 09 September 2024

Closing date Monday 30 September 2024

Interview date To be confirmed

Reference CH12052

Applicant Visa Guidance Skilled Worker visa: guidance for applicants (bath.ac.uk)

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This role is eligible for the DDaT New Starter Bonus

We are seeking a Principal Engineer (M365) to join our Digital, Data & Technology Group.

About the role

The Principal Engineer role will play a key role in shaping and implementing the changes and improvements required to transform the service provision of technology services across the University.

Reporting into their respective ‘Head of' (Head of Technology Enablement & Support, Head of Infrastructure or Head of Platforms & Applications). This role forms part of the wider leadership team providing direction for the wider Delivery & Operations function. As an expert in their field, they will be responsible for the effective leadership for their technical and functional areas of responsibility.

The role will be responsible for engineering across a wide-ranging technology stack including on-premises solutions and cloud-based solutions. The Principal Engineer has the skills necessary to plan and manage all phases of work across the team, driving continual improvement, embedding good practices, processes, and methods.

As a Principal Engineer you will be responsible for effective operational IT Service Delivery within your area, ensuring services are managed in accordance with agreed service levels, standards and policies. Working with the DDaT Portfolio team the role will be responsible for the effective planning and delivery of the Projects within your area, ensuring alignment to the agreed organisational priorities and adherence to the agreed project delivery and assurance framework.

There is a market supplement of up to £7,000 available at our discretion, based on skills and experience.

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About you

DDaT New Starter Bonus In addition to the great benefits DDaT has to offer, you can benefit from a £2,000 New Starter Bonus. £1,000 is payable after you have successfully completed 1 years' service. The remaining £1,000 will be paid once you have successfully completed 2 years' service.

Please note this bonus is only applicable to certain roles in DDaT and is specified on the relevant job adverts. Bonus payments will be pro rata for part time roles.

This bonus is subject to terms and conditions (see attached document).

What we can offer you:

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details such as your name, may be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.